On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 19:03, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 03/07/06, jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That seems to indicate a normal enough delay. The site may be relatively > > overloaded. There is also a possibility that the actual machine at that > > address might simply be a fowarding address to a Google site in the > > US. That's about a 6700 mile (10800 km) sort of delay time difference. > > > > So far that shows no packet loss. I'd run the pings for a longer time, > > say 100 pings or so, and look at the summary. If there are zero dropped > > packets then Google should seem normally responsive to you. > > Thanks, Joanne. The whole issue started because I feel that the web is > awfully slow on this machine. Clicking a link can take about half a > minute until a webpage displays. However, online speed tests show that > my connection is what it should be. That's a classic symptom of having 2 DNS servers listed in your /etc/resolv.conf with only the 2nd one actually working. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
